Pet Friendly Mackinac Island

Mackinac Island is truly a pet friendly island, not like most cities where they disregard pets in hotels, restaurants and other private places, here in Mackinac Island pets are considered as customers, much like their owners. If you plan to travel to Mackinac Island with your pet either be a cat or a dog it is best to travel via ferry, where your pets receives all the transportations amenities he needs. At the island dogs are permitted in horses drawn carriage tours for the sight seeing and as an introduction for new tourists. A dog can be carried on the lap of the owner or if the dog is to big the owner can pay for a seat same as the payment for a child.

Walking your pets to Mackinac islands trails will make a great help to your pets health. Mackinac Island has 70 trails to choose from dust to asphalt. It more convenient and healthy for your pets to walk on dust in prevention from injuries to their paws. The cleanliness in Mackinac Island is a big issue so tourists or pet owners must bring their own poop bag for they’re pets wastes, if you ran out of poop bag you can have them in Mackinac Island marina and sticky paws around the harbor.

Restaurants allows pet inside in Mackinac Island. Aside from allowing inside, pets most restaurants offers a special place for pets where free and clean drinking water is supplied to them while other restaurants allows pets to sit beside their master at the dining table to eat along with them. These restaurants need reservations and a forward notice that you’ll have a pet along with you. Here are some list of restaurants you and your pet can enjoy, Mr. B’s Tea room, gate house and grand stand in grand hotel, chillin and grillin water front café and Mary’s bistro.

If you love riding horsebacks then Mackinac Island is the get away paradise for you. Mackinac Island offers the great horseback experience in all city of Michigan. Mackinac Island has 100 years of history in horseback riding; they also prohibited personal automobiles for the preservation of their horses. The people of Mackinac Island love their nature and all within it, especially their horses and pets. Two of the well known horse farms are located here and they offer ride for tourists. The Cindy’s riding stable and jack’s livery stable. They offer a tour to the town carriage or a personal ride up horse for you to enjoy and cruise Mackinac Island yourself, just be sure you really know how to ride horses.

Just remember pets should be kept with leash when walking in the streets. As much as pet friendly Mackinac Island loves animals it is also important for the owners to keep an eye on them just for security.